HIV+ persons do not pose any risk to you under casual contact. Their infection makes them very depressed, isolated, weak, and insecure. They desperately need your love and support. Think of them as your brother or sister, and give them the same love, respect, and help to live the most productive and happy life they can. Also, educate your family, friends, and associates to do the same.
HIV+ persons do not pose any risk to society as HIV cannot be transmitted by casual contact. The risk arises if HIV+ people have sex without informing their partners or if they donate blood. These behaviors can be changed by proper information and awareness, so there is no need to kill HIV+ persons. HIV+ persons can continue as valuable and productive members of society, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children in spite of their infection. There are many HIV+ people who have done remarkable things in their life subsequent to HIV infection, and should be encouraged to do so rather than being isolated and condemned. One good way to think about how to deal with any HIV+ person is to think of them as your brother or sister. You will automatically act in the right way with them and provide them the love and support they desperately need.
There is no need to isolate HIV patients as HIV cannot be spread by casual contact like living together, eating together, sleeping in the same bed, sharing the same swimming pool, hugging or playing together. It is only spread by contact with infected blood and by sex. HIV+ patients need our love and affection and not isolation. It is not legally nor morally correct to isolate HIV+ persons.
There is absolutely no problem (legal or moral) with an HIV infected person marrying as long as both partners know of the infection and marry by free choice. Couples, in which one partner is HIV infected, can enjoy life together and love each other just like uninfected persons. The only difference is the risk of transmission of HIV during sex. They can even have sex together with greatly reduced risk of transmission of HIV by taking precautions such as always using a condom. Many couples in which one partner is infected have enjoyed a safe sexual life together without transmitting HIV by learning how to use a condom properly and using it always.
Rajan Gupta